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Title: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Lakeland Lorry on 16:33:14, 30/01/18
ITV tonight (30th Jan 2018) Britain’s Favourite Walks: Top 100 with Julia Bradbury

Starts at 7:30 and runs for two and a half hours.

This new two-and-a-half-hour special for ITV pulls on its hiking boots for a countdown of Britain’s favourite walks – featuring locations from the West Highland Way to the Ridgeway and almost everywhere in between.

Presented by Julia Bradbury and Ore Oduba, Britain’s Favourite Walks: Top 100 showcases the finest rambles, scrambles and ambles across the countryside and through cities to bring viewers the ultimate guide to the beautiful British outdoors.

http://theoutdoorguide.co.uk/tog-community-blog/new-itv-programme-britains-favourite-walks-top-100-with-julia-bradbury/ (http://theoutdoorguide.co.uk/tog-community-blog/new-itv-programme-britains-favourite-walks-top-100-with-julia-bradbury/)

Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: adalard on 16:43:47, 30/01/18
Am quite looking forward to this, although I'll probably watch it in chunks via catch-up.
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Strider on 22:40:16, 30/01/18
'twas OK.  I got the impression it was intended to be 5 or 6 hour-long programmes which they decided to mash down into the one 'special'.  The best bit was the quad amputee getting to the top of Snowdon for the first time in years.

The linked website is https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getoutside/itvs-britains-100-favourite-walks/
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: sussamb on 07:57:20, 31/01/18
Glad I recorded it ... Watching the whole programme would have been tedious  :)
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Glyno on 08:51:28, 31/01/18
ITV get a couple of not too busy presenters and cobble together a two and a half hour program to fill the void left by no European football. At least there's enough material to fill the next three issues of Trail mag.


what next - Britain's 100 favourite sandwich fillings?
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: phil1960 on 09:01:34, 31/01/18
ITV get a couple of not too busy presenters and cobble together a two and a half hour program to fill the void left by no European football. At least there's enough material to fill the next three issues of Trail mag.


what next - Britain's 100 favourite sandwich fillings?
I agree  O0
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Skip on 09:33:50, 31/01/18
Britain's 100 favourite sandwich fillings?

No debate whatsover: everyone knows it's honey-roast ham with mustard (veggie option is just the mustard)  ;)

Re 100 walks, there is an existing thread so I'll comment there.
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: fat goat on 09:45:23, 31/01/18
Still can't believe Pendle only got to 86 and no Pen-y-ghent? In all honesty who thinks that Scafell Pike from Wasdale Head is a 'nice walk'? Still, I enjoyed it and it made a lovely change from soaps and Coach Trip!
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: pleb on 10:17:13, 31/01/18
Yep I thought twas a decent programme.
Even more amazingly, I have done 2 out of the top 3 walks!
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Oldtramp on 23:44:23, 31/01/18
Pendle Hill may only have made 86 but the accompanying commentary, suggesting with great seriousness, that the unfortunate witches were really 'very intelligent women' was hilarious.
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Dyffryn Ardudwy on 10:44:01, 01/02/18
What we must not forget, is that this was just a random survey.
I am sure lots of us were surprised that Snowdon got beaten to second place by Helvellyn.
I would be very surprised indeed, that close to a million walkers made an ascent of Helvellyn, even though its a very popular Lakeland mountain.

According to Snowdon Mountain Railway resources in a North wales Weekly news article, last November, they carried nearly 348,000 visitors up by train, a seasonal record for the railway attraction.

Without physically counting them,  nobody here could doubt that the summit of Snowdon was without doubt the most visited summit in the Uk.


Where did ITV get their figures from, a random survey.

Helvellyn is without doubt a very popular mountain, BUT MORE FOOTFALL VISITORS THAN SNOWDON ?,  possibly, but unlikely.

Even Pen Y Fan in the Beacons, failed to get into the top ten, and we know how busy that as become.

This is just a random survey, and must not be taken too seriously.
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Skip on 18:11:10, 01/02/18
What we must not forget, is that this was just a random survey.
...
Where did ITV get their figures from, a random survey.
...
This is just a random survey, and must not be taken too seriously.

Yes, yes - you've made that point!

The show wasn't an analysis of footfall on summits: it was about the popularity of routes among 8,000 members of the Ramblers.

It's confusing having two concurrent threads on the same topic: here (http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=35889.msg512729;topicseen#msg512729) is the other (more comprehensive) thread.
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Mel on 19:04:44, 01/02/18
There's actually 3 Skip. T'other one here (http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=35919.0)   :D

Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Glyno on 19:20:12, 01/02/18


According to Snowdon Mountain Railway resources in a North wales Weekly news article, last November, they carried nearly 348,000 visitors up by train, a seasonal record for the railway attraction.



...possibly making it Britain's favourite railway journey
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Mel on 19:29:03, 01/02/18
...what next - Britain's 100 favourite sandwich fillings?


 ;D


Hosted by Gino D'Acampo wearing nowt but a pinny please  O0





Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: snakehips on 19:48:34, 01/02/18
Behave Mel  O0
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: bricam2096 on 20:10:22, 01/02/18

 ;D


Hosted by Gino D'Acampo wearing nowt but a pinny please  O0

How rude  ;)
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Skip on 20:02:14, 02/02/18
There's actually 3 Skip...
Now I'm even more confused!  ;)
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Mel on 22:39:31, 02/02/18
Behave Mel  O0


How rude  ;)


Spoilsports  :'(


I was only doing my bit for equality and diversity.... if you guys can, ahem, cast an appreciative eye over Julia Bradbury then indulge me in my daydream  :D
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: bricam2096 on 08:47:59, 03/02/18


Spoilsports  :'(


I was only doing my bit for equality and diversity.... if you guys can, ahem, cast an appreciative eye over Julia Bradbury then indulge me in my daydream  :D

Maybe I’m the odd one out but JB does nothing for me  :o
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: phil1960 on 10:11:30, 03/02/18
Maybe I’m the odd one out but JB does nothing for me  :o
I have to say me neither, she sounds like a bloke  ???
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Oldtramp on 12:26:39, 03/02/18
Well there's going to be a bevy of unemployed walk-on girls from darts and grid girls from motor racing.  Perhaps we can have programmes where they introduce a walk or a sandwich filling each.
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: barewirewalker on 12:06:48, 04/02/18
Maybe I’m the odd one out but JB does nothing for me   :o


 
I'll add myself to that list. Ever since I was tempted to watch one of her programs, misunderstanding that I might learn something from it  and saw her scuttling alongside an 6ft wall down it the southeast, with a breathless mention that there was a 'private estate', on the other side. I thought what a wimp, get one of the numerous entourage you are walking with to give you a leg up so you can get a look over the otherside. Just as she took on the Presidency of the Ramblers, where she could have done a bit of good raising questions about where we are not allowed to walk.

 
I think Vixen Tor was in the news at the time and not very far very far away from where she was wiggling her butt at the cameras.  

 
I might watch the the best 100 walks 'off piste', if it were to be made. I could put forward an 8 mile stroll Mrs BWW and I did in a 8000 acre 'no go zone', which would put to shame any section of the Cheshire Sandstone Trail and would be a key element in a Shropshire extension of that excellent route.

 
Curious thought has occurred, if you find enough people to think that you have got a measurement of popularity of a prescribed route, have you found a large percentage of those who are incapable of making up there own independent routes.
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Mel on 18:38:02, 04/02/18
That wasn't the purpose of the TV programme though BWW.


Who knows what conversations she had or walks she did off screen ...

Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: barewirewalker on 10:24:11, 05/02/18
That wasn't the purpose of the TV programme though BWW.


Just as well I didn't watch it,  :) just been a waste of time.


Who knows what conversations she had or walks she did off screen ...


 
Though at the time she was President of the Ramblers there was a joint policy on access published by all user parties, that came up with the notion that access should be demand led. All the studies I have made along the English side of the Marches show that people are trying to walk or ride X country and it is the sections that were left off the definitive map that stop them doing this.

 

 
Title: Re: Britain's 100 Favourite Walks
Post by: Mel on 13:43:21, 05/02/18
Still wasn't the point of this TV programme :)